"Children and Adolescents' School Supplies Myopia Prevention and Control Hygiene Requirements" will be implemented on March 1
Intern Wang Ziyao
From March 1, the "Sanitary Requirements for the Prevention and Control of Myopia in School Supplies for Children and Adolescents" (hereinafter referred to as the "Requirements") issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standardization Administration will be officially implemented. What are the specific requirements of the new standard?
How is the implementation?
Textbooks, etc. have font size requirements
The "Requirements" will include textbooks, teaching aids, learning magazines, course books, examination papers, learning newspapers, preschool children's learning books, as well as general classroom lighting fixtures, reading and writing desk lamps, and teaching multimedia related to the prevention and control of myopia. Children's school supplies are included in the management.
Among them, for the textbooks used by students of different grades, the font size and font size have different requirements.
For example, the font size of preschool children's books and the first and second grades of primary school should not be smaller than 3 characters, and the line spacing should not be less than 5.0 mm;
The reporter visited several bookstores randomly, took the pre-printed slips of the prescribed font size, and compared the font size, font, line spacing, etc. Supplementary information does not meet the standards.
Parents who came to buy materials said that when they bought teaching materials for their children, they also began to pay attention to the visual effects of the materials.
"In the past, I didn't pay attention to the font size of textbooks, thinking that as long as children use less electronic products when learning, they can protect their eyesight." Ms. Song's son Coco is in the fourth grade. He often holds a palm-sized vocabulary book with his eyes attached to the vocabulary. This book reads and recites the words aloud.
"Now we no longer allow children to read such 'pocket books'." Parent Ms. Chen suggested that schools should step up efforts to popularize the core knowledge of myopia prevention and control, cultivate children's healthy eye behavior, and build a healthy visual environment.
"Our children's school did not publicize this new policy. I learned the news from a friend."
Pay attention to choosing table lamps for children
"I usually pay attention to the font size of children's books. The textbooks and test papers used in schools are relatively large, but some extracurricular books have very small characters. Adults will feel tired after reading for a long time." Parent Sun Yichen told reporters that the child was only in school. In the third grade, he has already put on small glasses.
He usually likes to read comic books, historical stories and detective novels. Some books are children's editions with larger font sizes, while others are relatively small.
"You can't stop him from reading the books he wants to read because of the size of the words." Sun Yichen said that children's visual fatigue is not only a problem of the font size of printed materials, but also heavy schoolwork and electronic products that cannot be quit are important factors for children's vision loss. .
"I haven't paid much attention to the font size of textbooks used by my children, but I really struggled for a long time when choosing an eye-protecting desk lamp." Parent Xiao Xiao's Dabao is in the first year of the new year, and Erbao is still in kindergarten, so he bought an eye-protecting desk lamp for them. Let Xiao Xiao "come in trouble".
Glare, color temperature, color rendering index, blue light... all kinds of professional terms confuse parents, and the price of a table lamp is often from a few hundred yuan to several thousand yuan, which makes parents "overwhelmed".
Liu Hu, chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Provincial People's Hospital, suggested that parents pay attention to several indicators when choosing a table lamp: first, the illuminance should reach 500lux, and the spectral composition should preferably be the same as the outdoor sunlight composition; secondly, pay attention to the stroboscopic and color temperature of the table lamp, The light contrast should be soft, and the desk lamp should not be turned on and other lighting in the room should not be turned off during use.
Prevention of myopia in children requires multiple escorts
Before the start of the new semester, many school teachers who check lighting and electronic equipment are busy.
Wu Hongming, principal of Juheng Road Primary School Education Group in Yancheng City, introduced that at the beginning of each semester, special teachers will visit each class to check the classroom lighting and multimedia screens, and repair and update them in time.
"Since last year, we have replaced all classroom fluorescent lights with lighting that meets eye hygiene." All along, the school has been adjusting students' seats monthly, personalizing seat heights, strengthening eye exercises, and electronic The product teaching time is not allowed to exceed 30% and other measures to help children prevent and control myopia.
In Wu Hongming's view, the implementation of the "Requirements" has refined the prevention and control of young people's myopia, which is more conducive to operation and implementation.
"Prevention and control of children's myopia is a major event. In addition to ensuring that students have more than one hour of physical exercise time at school, I also hope that parents will pay attention to their children's exercise at home, the use time of electronic products and sleep time." Wu Hongming said.
According to incomplete statistics, the number of myopia in my country has exceeded 450 million, of which the high incidence of myopia is in the adolescent stage, with an incidence of about 30% in primary schools, 60% in junior high schools, 80% in high schools, and 90% in colleges.
Luan Jie, director of the Department of Ophthalmology of Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, said that with the increasingly severe situation of myopia in children, the state has issued a series of policy requirements for "eye health".
The "Requirements" proposes different font sizes for textbooks and other children of different ages. It is very reasonable. If the font size is too small, it will be very harmful to children who have not yet developed their visual functions.
"To prevent myopia, the first thing to advocate is to increase the time of children's outdoor activities and let them 'eyes' bathe in the sun. It is also necessary to reduce the time spent close to the eyes and increase sleep."
Liu Hu reminded that multiple factors such as genetics and the environment lead to myopia in children. The implementation of the "Requirements" is a manifestation of intervention in myopia from environmental factors. Add a "protective screen" to the visual environment for children and adolescents to learn.